The advent of ChatGPT has cybersecurity experts spooked. Some fear the powerful chatbot will make it far easier for non-coders to create malware and become cybercriminals. But so far, one cybersecurity company says, ChatGPT may be having a counterintuitive effect on hacking: supercharging scams that don’t rely on any sort of malicious code at all.
Max Heinemeyer, the chief product officer at the U.K.-based cybersecurity firm Darktrace, says that looking at the one-month period since ChatGPT attained 1 million users in early December, there has been little change in the total number of attempted cyberattacks targeting Darktrace customers. But Darktrace has seen a distinct shift in the tactics used by cybercriminals.
